Woman robbed of €52,000 in Nicosia phone scam

A 72-year-old woman in Nicosia fell victim to a telephone scam on Wednesday afternoon, with perpetrators managing to rob her of a sum of €52,000.

According to a police statement, the woman received a call around 2pm on her landline from an unknown man who introduced himself as a surgeon at the Nicosia general hospital.

The suspect allegedly requested the sum of €57,000 for a surgical procedure that her son needed to undergo due to an alleged accident.

Meanwhile, according to the woman’s testimony given to the police...